BOTH SIDES OF SEINE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 279, 22 August 1944, Page 5

BOTH SIDES OF SEINE

Allied Air Attacks In Bad Weather LONDON, August 20. . Bud weather interfered with Allied air operations today, but fighters and fighterbombers continued to make harassing attacks upon the retreating enemy, who is taking advantage of tree-screened roads to make toward the Seine with some chance of escaping observation. The enemy is also using ingenious camouflage. Throughout yesterday there was a continuous enemy withdrawal north-east toward Bornay. where the escaping traffic split up and pressed on toward the Seine.

Reconnaissance reports show clearly the gruelling effects of the Allied attacks upon the German communications on the other side of the great waterway. A large number of trains of from six to 12 cars each have been observed marooned without locomotives at various points on tlie railway system cast of the river.

Marauders this afternoon bombed the Germans trying to escape across the Seine and taking cover in a forest southwest of Rouen. Sixty medium bombers rained fragmentation bombs into the Forest de la Londe, about 10 miles from Rouen, where intelligence reports bad indicated that enemy groups were awaiting .ferries. Fires and explosions were seen in the forest area. All the bombers returned.